Hi John. Personally, on the gun deck, I would draw lines across remembering that the boards are staggered as they hit cross beams. It would be a one-piece deck with holes cutout for masts. Every other board hits a cross beam in a different spot. On the spar deck I would cut them since they are more visible. Only my opinion.
Thank you.
Many old foliage green paints contained a pigment called 'Scheele's Green, which was actually made by combining copper and arsenic, which made it a very effective rot-proof and bug-proof coating. The hull was a mix of white oak and live oak from Georgia and wouldn't need this, but much of the internal joinery was southern white pine, which would probably benefit from a coat of fungicide. Copper Arsenate paints were understood to be toxic to nearby humans by the end of the 19th century and were no longer used with abandon, but they are still found in old houses in England, often buried under layers of more modern paint.
